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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

SECRETS AND LIES

Democracy cannot survive unless citizens know what
their government is doing in their names. Without this knowledge a People are
unable to fairly judge the actions of its leaders. This is necessary for
citizens to make informed decisions when they choose who to represent them.
When schools, the media and politicians are all controlled by powerful special
interests, any claim that a nation is democratic is a lie.
This is the situation in which the people of the United States find themselves
today. It is clear that our government is concealing its actions in order to
keep secret the fact that it is serving powerful corporate interests to the exclusion
of those of We the People. Since these corporations owe no allegiance to any
nation or its People, the United States government is effectively in the hands
of traitors and foreign agents who manipulate it to serve their own interests. Although
the evidence is in the public domain, it is hidden beneath layers of secrets
and lies.
The victors in today’s culture war will write the history that our children
will be taught in schools. If we let them defeat the forces of democracy they
will not study books like A People’s History by Howard Zinn, but be fed a
Bolshevized history that reflects the fascist views of the economic elite who
dictate the curriculum. George Orwell warned us in 1948 that a time would come
when America would be enslaved by international corporate terrorists who would
collude to keep us fighting for corporate Empire and ignorant of the truth of
our plight. His argument reflected a deep understanding of the means by which fascist
and communist leaders keep rebellion to their rule in check.
When the People of a nation forget the mistakes of the past it is condemned to
repeat them. The deliberate distortion of US and world history by the corporate
elite threatens to condemn our children to enslavement in a fascist New World
Order. It is thus up to us to become the teachers who will train them to changethe world. We who have lived through the history of a nation that has strayed
from the path to democracy have the moral responsibility to help them
understand the difference between fascism and traditional conservatism, which
seeks to preserve the best of the past rather than to assume that the course of
history is not in our hands.

The complicity of the US government in the 9/11 attacks is unmistakable, yet
anyone who calls for a reassessment of the facts is labeled a “conspiracy
nut.” Those who promote theories of deliberate collusion between the power
elite are given a platform for their ideas so as to discredit those of us who
are more cautious in making conclusions as to the way in which the US
government has been made subject to a few powerful individuals. The battle of
the SuperPACs taking place in the Republican presidential primary illustrates
that there is no organized conspiracy against democracy in the US, only fleeting
alliances between those among the economic elite who are concerned only with
their immediate self-interest.
It is ironic that the more the US government takes pains to conceal the fact
that it has been taken over in a corporate coup, the more it tries to control
the flow of information on the internet. One means by which it does so is to
give itself the power to engage in surveillance of all traffic on the internet,
as well as phone conversations and bank transactions. This is done in the name
of fighting terrorism to conceal the fact that it is our own government that is
the chief cause of the War of Terror that no longer threatens only the Peoples
of governments that refuse to submit to the expansion of corporate Empire, but
the freedom of the formerly complacent citizens of the US.
Some would say that the death of privacy is detrimental to democracy. I would
argue that it has the potential to be a principle determinant in whether
democracy can survive. Imagine if our so-called leaders were required to take
an oath that they would never lie to us. If enforced, this would enable
Americans to not only judge but to remove the corporate Puppets in Congress who
do not give a second thought to the fact that they routinely betray those who
put them in power. Having sacrificed their privacy for the sake of power, they
would no longer be able to dismiss those of us who demand accountability for
their actions.
If we demanded such transparency from our leaders, we should expect that our
own actions would be open to the inspection of our fellow citizens. The business
leaders who conceal the criminal actions they commit in the pursuit of profit
could then be held accountable to We the People. The petty little injustices
that we commit against each other should be known if we are to claim to be
leaders in our communities. In a true democracy under the rule of law, we would
have nothing to fear if our actions matched our words. Such a society could
function democratically because all the facts would be known when we must make
a collective decision affecting all of us.

As a therapist I have found that any problem is made worse by keeping it to yourself. Worse yet is concealing the truth from yourself. It becomes a cancer eating at your soul. Hiding your faults prevents you from achieving integrity and the essential ability to become capable of being a responsible citizen. It is thus not only a betrayal of self but of all our children and generations yet unborn.Democracy requires that a People be good enough to rule themselves. The only
alternative is to accept rule by others. Inevitably, this gives rise to an
economic aristocracy that will seek to control us in order to maintain their
positions of privilege. Only in an open society can a People fairly judge what
its government should be allowed to do in its name.

Freedom of thought cannot
be abridged, but freedom expression can be violently suppressed by a government
in a nation bitterly divided against itself. This cannot happen in a truly democratic society whose people understand that what is best for the individual is always what is best for all. Only when the American people decide
to cross the great divide that separates them can they hope to end the civil warand finish the revolution.

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OUR GOAL: The eradication of war by restoring democracy in America.

OUR MISSION: To challenge the US Congress to put the needs of the people above those of their plutocratic sponsors. We can only establish democracy in America and the world by working together to abolish the "rights" of corporations and those who control them to determine the collective destiny of the Peoples of the United States and of the world.

THE PROBLEM: is not that the American government does not work. It works fine for those who own it, just not for the people of America. It is corporate control of Congress that permits the enslavement of Peoples of other nations and ultimately, Americans as well.

Now that the global economic elite are bringing their tools of subjugation to the United States, we must fight back together to ensure that the hope of government of the People, by the People and for the People does not perish from the Earth.

Together, we can mend the social fabric of a broken nation and assure liberty and justice for all the Peoples of the planet we share.

War and lack of health care are symptoms of the same disease: corporate control of the US government. That is why we must take back America for the people by working to pass a Constitutional amendment to get corporate money out of elections and abolish corporate personhood. This is the essential first step to creating true representative government.

Until Americans learn to fight their common enemy instead of each other, there is no reason to expect real change. We must put aside our differences to fight the imposition of a corporate New World Order if we are going to ensure that our children grow up in a rational, sustainable world where war is but a memory.